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Poland has reburied the body of its last leader-in-exile Ryszard Kaczorowski after a mix-up over the remains of some victims of a 2010 presidential plane crash in Russia that killed 96 people including the then head of state.

Traces of explosives have been discovered on the wreck of the Polish presidential jet which crashed in Russia in 2010, killing then president Lech Kaczynski and 95 other people, a newspaper reported Tuesday.

The United States on Monday declassified more than 1,000 pages of documents related to the Katyn massacre of thousands of Poles by Soviet forces during World War II.

Russia on Tuesday sentenced a radical anti-Vladimir Putin activist to eight years in prison for drug possession in a case that her supporters have decried as politically motivated.

Spain on Sunday begin their quest to become the first team to win back-to-back European titles, as they take on crisis-hit Italy in their Euro 2012 opener.

Russian striker Roman Pavlyuchenko said Tuesday if Russia are to have a chance of at least repeating their semi-final appearance at Euro 2008 in this edition they have to beat their opening opponents Czech Republic on Friday.

Eduard Khil, a Russian crooner who had an unexpected career revival in his later years with an Internet hit nicknamed "the Trololo song," died on Monday at the age of 77, Russian television said.

Russia on Thursday rejected Poland's request to move its Euro 2012 team base from an upmarket Warsaw hotel and dismissed worries about a politically-sensitive rally planned nearby as media hyperbole.

Russia's Dutch coach Dick Advocaat on Thursday ruled out shifting his team's Euro 2012 base from a central Warsaw hotel out of concerns about a politically-sensitive rally only days into the event.

Poland has asked Russia to consider shifting its Euro 2012 base from a central Warsaw hotel, Sports Minister Joanna Mucha said Wednesday, amid concerns about a politically-sensitive rally.

Visiting Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and his Canadian counterpart Stephen Harper on Monday announced that their two countries would bolster energy cooperation to develop shale gas deposits.

Visiting Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Sunday said he was proud to find another Wilno, settled by Canada's first Polish immigrants, on pine-covered hills east of Ottawa.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was headed to Canada on Saturday for a three-day visit postponed two years ago by the air crash that killed president Lech Kaczynski in Russia.

Thirty-one people were killed Monday when a passenger jet crashed moments after takeoff in an oil-rich Siberian region, the latest accident to hit Russia's crisis-prone aviation industry.

Thirty-one people were killed Monday when a passenger plane crashed moments after takeoff in an oil-rich Siberian region in the latest accident to hit Russia's crisis-prone aviation industry.

Twenty-nine people were killed when a passenger plane crashed in Siberia shortly after takeoff on Monday, while the other 14 people aboard were injured, Russia's emergencies ministry said.

TUNOSHNA, Russia (Reuters) - A passenger plane carrying a Russian ice hockey team to a season-opening match crashed after takeoff from a provincial airport on Wednesday, killing 43 people and plunging the Russian and international sports world into grief.

WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland exhumed on Monday the first victim of last year's plane crash in western Russia, which killed the country's president and 95 others, because of concerns that the Russian autopsy may be faulty.

It's summer, so it must be time for Russian strongman Vladimir Putin to take his shirt off.

SMOLENSK, Russia - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Thursday accused opposition parties of selling seats in parliament, in the strongest attack yet on political opponents ahead of a December parliamentary election.